State v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * That statute, which was enacted originally as Section 12 of Act No. 121 of 1855, was declared unconstitutional, in the case of State v. Montgomery, 115 La. 155 , 38 So. 949 , but only in so far as the statute undertook to allow a prosecution to be had in a parish other than that in which the crime was committed, provided it was committed within 100 yards from the boundary line of the parish in which the prosecution is had. That constitutional objection has been removed by a provision in Section 9 of Article I of the Constitution of 1921,. allowing a prosecution to be had in either parish where the crime was committed within 100 yards from a boundary line between two parishes. But we are not aware of any constitutional objection to the provision in Section 988 of the Revised Statutes, with reference to a crime that was begun in one parish and completed in another. * * * ” (Emphasis ours.) 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Coon